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Native Americans Today: Stereotypes in Czech Schools

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lucie Veselá
Description
Comments on the danger of stereotypes and how difficult it is to discover and disclose them in everyday life. Suggests solutions to avoid stereotypes in teaching. Bachelor's Thesis [English Language and Literature]--Masaryk University, 2006.
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The Native Telehealth Outreach and Technical Assistance Program: A Community-based Approach to the Development of Multimedia-focused Health Care Information

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rhonda Wiegman Dick
Spero M. Manson
Amy L. Hansen

Annie Huggins
Lori Trullinger
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 14, no. 2, 2007, pp. 49-66
Description
Examines a program that equips Aboriginal community members with the means to use technology to address Indigenous health care needs.
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[Native Voices in the City]

Alternate Title
[Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project]
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Chicago American Indian Oral History Pilot Project]
Description

Unpublished transcript of excerpts from interviews with 23 Indian residents of Chicago. 

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Natural Resources Inventories of Indian Public Domain Trust Allotments in California

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Nakamura
Richard R. Harris
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 1997, pp. 49-61
Description
Discussion of public domain trust allotments, a class of specific lands, for individuals, created by the General Allotment Act of 1887 and the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (NIFRMA).
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Navajo Education and the Future

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Roessel
Jr.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 38, no. 3, Special Issue 1, Spring, 1999, p. [?]
Description
Artcicle debates major developments in Native American education over the last fifty years, current issues or trends, and hopes for the future.
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Navajo Women in the City: Lessons from a Quarter-Century of Relocation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Metcalf
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 71-89
Description
An examination on the effects of Navajo women moving to urban settings in the mid-twentieth century by looking at the rationale for the relocations, comparing field-work research and formulating new research strategies for the future.
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The Navajos in a Complex Society

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara D. George
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 18, no. 2, January 1979, pp. [15-22]
Description
Effects of the history of education on the Navajo nation.
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The Need for Student Records in the Counseling of Navaho Students

Alternate Title
Need for Student Records in the Counseling of Navajo Students
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward Charles Hinckley
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 2, no. 3, October 1962, pp. [1-6]
Description
Explains why a Navajo-wide standardization of records is required and why the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs employees' should have cultural understanding and awareness.
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"Never Again": Kevin Gover's Apology for the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Buck
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 2006, pp. 97-126
Description
Discusses an apology by Kevin Gover, on behalf of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, in regards to the policies and actions that had devastating impacts on Native American peoples.
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Obama's Inclusive Approach Lesson for Canada

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, January 23, 2009, p. A9
Description
Comments on how social change, improved living conditions, health services and education can become signs of inclusion by Indigenous peoples.
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Occupational Training for America's Forgotten Minority

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Everett D. Edington
Darrell S. Willey
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 10, no. 2, January 1971, pp. [15-20]
Description
Discusses the low standard of living, poverty rates, and improvements in vocational and technical education.
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Off-Reservation Boarding High School Teachers: How Are They Perceived by Former American Indian Students

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ben Chavis
The Social Science Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, January 1999, p. 33
Description
Discusses various recollections of the teacher-student relationships Native American's had with their former teachers in boarding school settings, and looks at the process of assimilation fostered within the context of an all-Indian boarding school.
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Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian

Alternate Title
Old Cowboys, New Indians
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
T. V. (Thomas Vernon) Reed
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 2001, pp. 75-96
Description
Reviews and evaluates documentary and fictional Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s, in relation to how the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States is portrayed.
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On the State of the Indians (January 1823)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edward Everett
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 10-14
Description
Comments on a report by Rev. Jedidiah Morse to the Secretary of War in the U.S. on Indian Affairs. Originally published in The North American Review, January, 1823.
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On the Treatment and Reburial of Human Remains: The San Xavier Bridge Project, Tucson, Arizona

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John C. Ravesloot
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, Winter, 1990, pp. 35-50
Description
Article describes the consultation process and the eventual agreement (1985) between the Tohono O’Odham nation, the Arizona State Museum, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding the exhumations, examination and repatriation of human remains at the San Xavier Bridge site.
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An Overview of the Rough Rock Demonstration School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Roessel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 7, no. 3, May 1968, pp. [2-14]
Description
Pioneering Native American school has Navajo peoples directly and actively involved in the operation of the local school.
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Paradoxes of Modernism and Indianness in the Southeast

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. Anthony Paredes
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 341-360
Description
Author (an Anthropology Professor) attempts to define contemporary Indigenous identity in the Southwestern United States from an ethnographic perspective.
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Photographing the Places of Citizenship: The 1922 Crow Industrial Survey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Parker
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 57-86
Description
Discusses the Office of Indian Affairs Industrial Survey Project which sought information ranging from demographics to qualitative data on the "industry" and "health" of tribal members and the condition of their households.
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The Place of Falling Water

Alternate Title
Video Reviews
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher Paci
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 159-161
Description
Video review of: The Place of Falling Water produced by Roy Bigcrane and Thompson Smith about the experiences of the Salish and Kootenai peoples on the Flathead Reservation.
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Planning for the Next Generation: Capital Infrastructure at Colleges and Universities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily R. White Hat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 31, no. 2, Building Infrastructure, Winter, 2019
Description
Article describes three projects that have been initiated by the college fund to meet the evolving needs of tribal colleges and universities and address some of the shortcomings in the current infrastructure.
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The Political Survival of Landless Puget Sound Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kenneth D. Tollefson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 213-235
Description
Author examines the movement of and reorganization of the Indigenous nations in the Puget Sound region of the United States in response to land seizure by the settler colonial state. Considers how contemporary governing bodies use that displacement to argue against the communities’ petitions to have their tribal statuses legally recognized.
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Poverty, Politics, and Petroleum: The Utah Navajo and the Aneth Oil Field

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert S. McPherson
David A. Wolff
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, Summer, 1997, pp. 451-470
Description
Authors discuss different positions and policies on resource extraction from traditional Diné territories and how these have created and maintained poverty conditions on the Navajo Reservation in Utah.
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Present Aspects of the Indian Problem (July 1881)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carl Schurz
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 45-54
Description
Outlines federal policy beneficial to Native Americans. Originally published in North American Review, July 1881.
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Preservation as Perpetuation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marcia Pablo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1, 2001, pp. 18-20
Description
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, in northwestern Montana, and how their land is protected by the State Historic Preservation Office.
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